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eCryptfs honey badger

encryption >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ecryptfs.org/

A cryptographic filesystem.

A fantastic concept and program which I used heavily for a long time across multiple Linux distributions.

  • Be aware that attacks on people, hardware and implementation are the go-to methods for defeating encryption. Some points:

    • A legal or physical threat, lies and other social engineering.
    • A hardware or software keylogger. Are you typing your password on a keyboard and computer you control?
  • eCryptfs-mount.sh is my helper script.



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(on Wikipedia)
was btrfs.docs.kernel.org ))

A filesystem I use because of checksumming and de-duplication.

Very good, although I’ve had a sketchy history with it. I’ve used multiple versions of it, sometimes mounting the same partition with different versions of it.

I stopped using it because I lost trust in its reliability.



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/remmina/
https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina
remmina.org

Briefly tinkered with, during my Remote desktop on the CubieTruck (rdesktop, CubieTruck) project

I didn’t really use it, and didn’t take notes on it.

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Software >
Git >

(on Wikipedia)
https://jonas.github.io/tig/ [ 1 ] was http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

Tig: Text-mode interface for Git.

Git is too far over my head for me to really play with this..

  • Tig – text-mode interface for git



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